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Coinage portraits of King Charles III and related changes

Started by andyg, September 08, 2022, 08:19:58 PM

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chrisild

Quote from: eurocoin on September 22, 2023, 10:00:33 PMThe Falkland Islands are the the first country to introduce the portrait of king Charles III on its standard circulation coins. Pobjoy Mint released a coin set, that is now sold out.

So do the circulation coins have the same "look" as those limited-edition pieces? By the way, I find it strange that "Falkland Islands" appears twice on each piece, but of course that is up to them ...

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Visit the website of The Royal Mint Museum.

See: The Royal Mint Museum.

Alan71

It might be Pobjoy's standard obverse inscription format.  I looked at their website and saw an image of a British Antarctic Territory 50p that had the denomination and country of issue on the obverse as well as the date and King's name and title.  The only difference was that it was rendered as "50 Pence" not "Fifty Pence".  I didn't see the reverse but as it was a commemorative, it's unlikely the territory name would appear on it.

Presumably it was merely adapted for the Falklands without too much thought on whether it was all really necessary.

Alan71

Quote from: eurocoin on September 22, 2023, 10:00:33 PMThe Falkland Islands are the first country to introduce the portrait of king Charles III on its standard circulation coins.
Should that be second?  The Isle of Man have issued a 2023 set.

eurocoin


eurocoin

Australia has announced the introduction of the Dan Thorne portrait on its coinage:

Change is coming.

This morning, Andrew Leigh and Leigh Gordon announced that the portrait of His Majesty King Charles III will grace the obverse of all new Australian coins.

The effigy was designed by Dan Thorne from The Royal Mint in the UK and was approved by His Majesty King Charles III.
 
This has been a complex task and required highly specialised skills spanning design, engineering, engraving and tool-making.

The Royal Australian Mint is approaching the conclusion of trials and prototyping and will shortly enter full scale manufacturing of the $1 circulating coin with the new effigy. The Mint intends on manufacturing 10 million of these $1 coins, which will commence going into the banks and into the economy close to December this year.

The Mint will progressively update the five other circulating coin denominations through 2024. The Mint will also commence application of the new effigy onto our Collectible and Investment coins early into 2024.

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Quote from: eurocoin on October 05, 2023, 07:22:38 AMAndrew Leigh and Leigh Gordon announced that the portrait of His Majesty King Charles III will grace the obverse of all new Australian coins.

Andrew Leigh is the Australian Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury.

Leigh Gordon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Australian Mint.
Visit the website of The Royal Mint Museum.

See: The Royal Mint Museum.

eurocoin

The Lithuanian Mint has started using the Jody Clark portrait of HM King Charles III on the collectors coins it releases for Niue.

augsburger


eurocoin

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Jody Clark has made a second obverse portrait of King Charles III. The first portrait can be seen here.

Niue 1 dollar 2024 obverse.jpg

eurocoin

A portrait of King Charles III by an unknown artist with the initials JP or JF has appeared on the obverse of a collectors coin of the Solomon Islands.

Solomon Islands 50 cents 2023 Concorde.jpg

eurocoin

Quote from: eurocoin on October 25, 2023, 06:57:47 PMA portrait of King Charles III by an unknown artist with the initials JP or JF has appeared on the obverse of a collectors coin of the Solomon Islands.

Apparently they are the designer initials of Czech artist Jan Petr.

Figleaf

Quote from: eurocoin on October 25, 2023, 05:43:08 PMNiue 1 dollar 2024 obverse.jpg

Niue uses New Zealand dollars (NZD). An ounce of silver is about NZD 40 in today's local market (source).

Therefore, this is obviously a silver bar for retail speculators, since nobody will spend metal worth NZD 40 to buy NZD 1 of goods, so it is not a coin. If it is being sold for say NZD 44 or more, its purpose is to deceive the target group, who apparently do not realise that investing in silver bars is cheaper and just as risky.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

eurocoin

Quote from: eurocoin on October 25, 2023, 07:13:08 PMApparently they are the designer initials of Czech artist Jan Petr.

Jan Petr informed me that he made the portrait on commission of MDM Wholesale in Germany.

chrisild

Does on one hand make sense, yes. But wouldn't this mean that, whenever I would like to post a less-than-favorable ;D reply to a design (or mintage volume, etc.) presented in one of the topics here, I cannot do this here any more without being criticized for doing so? Hope this new policy (?) applies to the UK forums only. :(